South Philadelphia

South Philadelphia is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west. It began as a satellite town of Philadelphia to the north, but it rapidly industrialized and developed during the Industrial Revolution and the major wave of Irish immigrants who emigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine. In 1854, South Philadelphia was annexed into the city of Philadelphia,